Dutch Erasmus University's medical humanities education and its enlightenment

Abstract

Dutch medical humanities education curriculum framework covers many disciplines which satisfies the professional requirements. The design and materials for teaching are based on re-search and practice driven; teachers' cooperation is full of experts from transnational, trans-regional, interdisciplinary, theory and practice. the Dutch university medical humanities provide a reference for China's medical humanities education curriculum reform as follows: the goal of medical humanities ed-ucation is for the medical practice but not intriguing sideline; the whole process of the students' participation mechanism should be full of support, supervision and examination; and the source of teachers should be multi-interdisciplinary and also from practice. Key words: Medical humanities; Curriculum; Reform; Netherlands